Amazon SQS Contracts in the City of London

Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Amazon SQS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Amazon SQS over the 6 months leading up to 10 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 113 161
Rank change year-on-year +6 +48 +15
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 10 11 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.57% 0.50% 0.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.32% 1.28% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 8 8
10th Percentile £421 £463 £464
25th Percentile £425 £481 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £475 £631 £591
90th Percentile £800 £778 £695
Central London median daily rate £450 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% -20.00%

All Cloud Skills
City of London

Amazon SQS falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 758 859 1,347
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 43.14% 39.30% 38.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 484 603 901
10th Percentile £363 £363 £313
25th Percentile £458 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £593
Median % change year-on-year - -7.17% +3.04%
75th Percentile £669 £668 £700
90th Percentile £750 £763 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £530 £575
% change year-on-year +3.77% -7.83% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 7
10th Percentile £24.66 £12.75 £44.75
25th Percentile £29.64 £14.88 £65.57
Median hourly rate £42.50 £22.50 £84.09
Median % change year-on-year +88.89% -73.24% +388.40%
75th Percentile £74.38 £26.19 £88.30
90th Percentile £135.00 £38.63 -
Central London median hourly rate £34.83 £22.50 £83.30
% change year-on-year +54.78% -72.99% +312.66%

Amazon SQS
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Amazon SQS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon SQS in the City of London

Amazon SQS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon SQS in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Amazon SQS in the City of London

Amazon SQS
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon SQS in the City of London over the 6 months to 10 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon SQS in the City of London

Amazon SQS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Confluence
1 1 (10.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) AWS
2 9 (90.00%) AWS Lambda
2 9 (90.00%) Serverless
3 4 (40.00%) Amazon S3
4 3 (30.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (30.00%) Amazon EventBridge
5 2 (20.00%) Amazon Cognito
5 2 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (20.00%) AWS Step Functions
5 2 (20.00%) Datadog
6 1 (10.00%) Amazon ECR
6 1 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (10.00%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) Redis
2 5 (50.00%) DocumentDB
3 3 (30.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (60.00%) SonarQube
2 5 (50.00%) Git
3 1 (10.00%) ESLint
3 1 (10.00%) JIRA
3 1 (10.00%) Mocha
General
1 5 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) JavaScript Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Architect
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Software Design Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Software Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (60.00%) Node.js
2 5 (50.00%) React
3 2 (20.00%) AngularJS
3 2 (20.00%) AWS CDK
3 2 (20.00%) GraphQL
3 2 (20.00%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (20.00%) WebSockets
4 1 (10.00%) CSS
4 1 (10.00%) Express.js
4 1 (10.00%) HTML
4 1 (10.00%) Jest
4 1 (10.00%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Microservices
2 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (30.00%) DevOps
5 2 (20.00%) Clean Code
5 2 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (20.00%) Event-Driven
5 2 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 2 (20.00%) Observability
5 2 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
5 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
5 2 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (20.00%) User Experience
6 1 (10.00%) Agile
6 1 (10.00%) Code Quality
6 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (10.00%) Design Patterns
6 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (30.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (20.00%) Terraform
2 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Splunk